Education & Pedagogy

Current attempts in industrialised countries to regulate teacher education in increasingly prescriptive ways raise profound social, ethical and pedagogical issues. This paper looks at the challenge such prescriptions pose and suggests that such regulation serves the democratic state less well than a more autonomous form of education. The implications of this alternative for teacher education are explored.

Discusses teacher education in Poland in relation to current ongoing reform of the educational system and looks at issues resulting from the political transformation that has occurred. The article identifies in which of the four quadrants of the scenario model (individualism, pragmatism, idealism, and social cohesion) the current Polish education system can be placed. (SM)

Asserts that scenarios are powerful tools for creating new perspectives on the future of teacher education, and for stimulating reflection, creativity, and imagination. Scenarios can be helpful both for deciding on institutional or (inter)national policies on teacher education and for facilitating individual learning processes of teacher educators and organizational learning processes. The methodology used at a 2002 Association for Teacher Education in Europe conference for developing scenarios is presented. (SM)

This article describes strategies for implementing comic strips into physical education instruction and provides ideas on how to locate relevant materials. The author suggests that, rather than disregard comic strips as a silly form of artistic expression within the popular culture, physical education should consider embracing the medium as a way to promote learning and positive attitudes within their physical education classes.

In the 21st century, Americans find themselves living in an increasingly interconnected world in which the marketplace is global and in which peace and stability require greater knowledge of different regions, cultures, and languages. In this article, the authors call on all education stakeholders to help internationalize our K-12 schools.

This essay asks and answers ten questions that the author believes can serve as a primer or heuristic for educators who are considering character education as a meaningful part of their pedagogical objectives in both the university core curriculum and specific disciplines. All of the questions and answers are premised around the key assertion that the essential element of character education is the inculcation of intellectual or epistemic virtues.

Using an institutional-structural model of inquiry, this study identified the degree to which ethics education exists in 173 Christian colleges and universities. The results indicated almost all students receive some form of ethics education. However, only one-third of these institutions require an ethics course within their general education requirements.

Career and technical education, often referred to as vocational education, has shifted its focus in the past 85 years from preparing students for work right after high school to preparing them to continue their education throughout their lifetime to keep up with changes in the workplace. This article provides resources for CTE educators to follow current legislation, explore best practices, and discover rich collections of lesson plans.

In this article, the author argues that the provisions in the White Paper and the Education and Inspections Bill mean the end of a coherent system of state education, locally administered. The education proposals are clearly part of the Government's ongoing transformation of the public sector. It is argued that the Government's education agenda is all about selection, segregation, fragmentation and privatisation.

The purpose of this study was to analyze science education searches and hiring practices for faculty positions listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education for an academic year. Chairs of searches completed a survey about successful and unsuccessful searches. Over 70% of searches were successful in hiring new science education faculty with 33% being veteran science education faculty.

Some ways to improve language education and second language competence in an international society and to promote foreign language study are suggested: Realistic achievement goals; efficient and flexible instruction; instruction in pedagogical methods; interdepartmental cooperation; cooperation with bilingual education programs; promoting study abroad, and sponsoring language education in professional schools. (CHK)

Like other African countries, Zambia's most pragmatic approach to national development must lie in adult education. The University of Zambia is one agency involved toward this goal and its emphasis is on rapid expansion of university-type education and the training of adult educators. (Author/JB)

This report summarizes AISD's evaluation results of its 2003-2004 state compensatory education programs.

The volume is devoted to the research of comparative vocational education and training, placing a special emphasis not only on theoretical development, but also on methodological approaches and on achieving excellent research outcomes by strictly concerning comparative studies in vocational education and training. This volume contains scientific contributions by renowned researchers of vocational education from all over the world.

This publication focuses on the duration of compulsory education/training in Europe. It highlights the starting and leaving ages and distinguishes the notions of full-time and part-time compulsory education/training. The information is available for 43 European education systems covering 38 countries participating in the EU's Erasmus+ programme. [For the 2018/19 report, see ED593406.]